Ben 10

Our Friday Night animation coverage has been a bit spotty for a few months now. I’m not entirely sure if we even cover either of these shows anymore. I know *I* don’t cover ‘em, but I can’t remember if somebody picked up Ben 10 or not. Certainly I’m not picking either of these shows back up, I’m well and truly, great and mightily burned out from the nights where I had to review four or five back-to-back-to-back shows. Just the same, it’s a crossover, so I thought I should at least note it.

Hi, everyone. Up until now, I've been the guy who reviewed the various Ben 10 series. For a variety of reasons, I can no longer do that. However, it's a really good show, and it totally deserves coverage on our site. We would be honored to run reviews of the show, if someone out there is willing to write 'em.

Old George appears at Area 51, busts in, and teleports the entire thing somewhere else, leaving only a huge miles-wide hole scooped in the ground. Cooper - last seen in the last episode of last year - is now a plumber. He calls in Grandpa Max, who brings Team Ben along mostly because they happened to be having a cookout with him at the time.

Remember last week when I was nattering on (In two separate reviews) about how I’m kinda’ bored with Ben 10 and Generator Rex, but Ben 10 is really, really, really, really trying hard to hold on to me, whereas Rex is just kind of going through the motions? Well, brother, they’re trying again tonight!

Once upon a time there was a show called “Ben 10,” which ended. This was followed by a really weak live action made-for-TV movie called “Ben 10: Race Against Time,” in which a one-shot villain named “Eon” did a bunch of stuff, and was defeated. It had Lee Majors in it, but apart from that….well, really even with that, it’s not terribly remarkable.

After beating up an illegal alien elephant (Which is just fun to say, and funner still to type, even if you’ve got carpal tunnel like me), Team Ben is summoned involuntarily to the Plumber Academy. Seems up to this point they’ve only had field commissions (Nice touch), and now they’ve got to go through formal training, or else they’re off the force. En rout they meet up with an alien kid named Tac, who idolizes Ben. As per usual, Gwen is taking everything very seriously, and Ben isn’t.

There’s this old dude named “George” who’s in a rest home. He’s been there for 40 years, no one can even remember his last name anymore. He notices something odd about a coin he endlessly toys with, and walks out, after decades of being basically comatose. The guard is too shocked to stop him.

Team Ben is fighting alien robots from dimention 12 when it turns out their long-forgotten cousin Sunny is staying with them. This annoys Gwen to no end, and Sunny’s kind of a jerk. She hits on Kevin, who’t shut up about her boyfriend Antonio, and insists on coming with them on a mission to fight robots. Turns out she’s a fully-alien member of the same species Grandpa Max’s wife came from, and she’s good at killing robots.

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